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Protected: Between China and India, the World
Category: The Whistle Library
When Prying into Writers’ Lives Passes Off as Literature
For the past few years that I have been blogging, regular readers of my blog must have noticed my lamenting the lack of anything intelligent or thought-provoking to read. Most of my complaining has been about books – old and new – that unprofessional PR agency idiot bosses and their cronies in RK Swamy/BBDO Chennai… Continue reading When Prying into Writers’ Lives Passes Off as Literature
Protected: Seeing through September headwinds
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Interpreting Mahatma Gandhi for a VUCA World
I am reading the second volume of the three-volume selection of Gandhi’s Moral and Political Writings, edited by Raghavan Iyer, that is part of my aged father’s library at home. I had read the first volume decades ago when I was visiting my parents from Delhi and thought it’s high time, I read the remaining… Continue reading Interpreting Mahatma Gandhi for a VUCA World
Protected: Reading Between the Lines of War and Geopolitics
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Advancing Human Connections Through the Spoken and Written Word
I have worked in advertising all my life, as a writer. It is a business that requires creativity, good communication skills, as also an understanding of business. Most of all, it is a service business and a people-based one. If you can’t express yourself clearly and effectively, you’re in trouble. While I have been writing… Continue reading Advancing Human Connections Through the Spoken and Written Word
Protected: Reading Through This Summer’s Flux
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Trying to Find Meaning in Marriage, Money and Muddlemarch
It must certainly be an eternity since I read a novel from the 19th century. My aged father had ordered a copy of Middlemarch by George Eliot from Amazon more than a year ago and I thought I must read it. I have already shared some of my observations about the book on social media,… Continue reading Trying to Find Meaning in Marriage, Money and Muddlemarch
Take That, AI!
As a postscript to my last blog post which was on how generative AI is here to threaten writers - at least in the advertising and brand communications industry - I thought I’d write a short piece in favour of human intelligence. From what tech evangelists have always told us, information technology is here to… Continue reading Take That, AI!
Protected: Reading for An Uneventful Summer
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Peripatetic Perch 